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Australia news LIVE: Bowen leads UN climate talks in Turkey; Trump casts doubt on midterm results; Russell Brand sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison for rape, sexual assaults

Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) •
November 09, 2026 • 07:45 PM
• By Emily Kaine
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Hello and welcome back to our live coverage of Australian and world news this Tuesday, November 10 . Here’s what is making headlines today.

Russell Brand has been sentenced to 10 years and six months in a British prison for raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others. Judge Joel Bennathan denounced Brand’s “casual and arrogant disregard” for any woman who said no to him, and castigated him for the series of lies he told in testimony denying assaults that dated back to 2004.

Assistant Treasurer Daniel Mulino says Jim Chalmers is safe in his role as treasurer after Environment Minister Murray Watt told reporters in Canberra yesterday he wanted to see an end to “undermining and leaking” of Chalmers from within the party.

Mulino said there were “all sorts of people making all sorts of comments” about Chalmers, and that the treasurer of the day would always be subject to scrutiny.

“He’s absolutely safe … The treasurer is leading a very ambitious program. The tax reforms are going to be very important for productivity growth, but also for fairness,” he told Nine’s Today show this morning.

“We’ve seen really, really significant savings each and every budget. The total debt position, the gross debt position of the government, is just under 200 billion dollars better than the trajectory we inherited. That’s a reflection of hard work over four years on the budget.”

US President Donald Trump has questioned the honesty of the midterm elections, in which his Republicans suffered generational defeats across the US.

He took to social media overnight to cast doubt on the vote — just days after he said on election night that he was absolutely “absolutely willing” to accept the results.

“Does anybody really believe that this “Election” was honest. How could the Polls be so wrong??? Some early voting “dumps” were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote,” he wrote.

“It’s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter!”

Russell Brand has been sentenced to 10 years and six months in a British prison for raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others.

Judge Joel Bennathan denounced Brand’s “casual and arrogant disregard” for any woman who said no to him, and castigated him for the series of lies he told in testimony denying assaults that dated back to 2004.

“About 20 years ago, Russell Brand, you were becoming famous,” Bennathan said. “You were clever – and in many people’s eyes, funny and charismatic. You had also become a sexual predator.

Hello and welcome back to our live coverage of Australian and world news this Tuesday, November 10 . Here’s what is making headlines today.

Russell Brand has been sentenced to 10 years and six months in a British prison for raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others. Judge Joel Bennathan denounced Brand’s “casual and arrogant disregard” for any woman who said no to him, and castigated him for the series of lies he told in testimony denying assaults that dated back to 2004.

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